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There are 32 security companies still operating in Iraq, ten of which are British and eleven from the US.  These companies had a good war.  They have made billions of dollars annually since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.“The sector is one of the UK’s most successful service providers, bringing in billions of dollars of … [Read more…]

The instability and internal divisions besetting the ConDem coalition accurately reflect the panic and disarray of the capitalist class under conditions of worsening crisis, with the war against Afghanistan clearly being lost and the public deficit now standing at £165 billion. However the opportunity for the working class to take proper advantage of this relative … [Read more…]

Cutting the budget deficit drastically commands the support of all the bourgeois parties – Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem.  Before it was ousted from office following the May General Election, the Labour Government had announced its intention to half the budget deficit over a period of four years.  Taking over from Labour, and hugely encouraged … [Read more…]

Throughout the capitalist world, countries are said to be in recovery, as economic growth has been restored after several quarters of shrinkage. Thus: “In April 2009, at the time of the London G20 summit, the consensus of forecasts for global economic growth this year was 1.9 per cent. By last September it had reached 2.6 … [Read more…]

The Israeli massacre aboard the Mavi Marmara rather than deterring people has galvanised more to support actions to break the siege of Gaza. Just as the economic stranglehold Israel has maintained on the people of Gaza for the last 4 years in an attempt to undermine support for Hamas has failed, so too has its … [Read more…]

Efforts by Washington to retard Iran’s economic development, undermine her sovereignty and isolate her from the community of nations are backfiring badly.  The passage on 9th June of a watered-down sanctions resolution at the UN, hailed by Iran’s enemies as an international endorsement of Washington’s illegitimate challenge to the right of small nations to choose … [Read more…]

For nearly two years, the Iraq war has disappeared from the print and electronic media.  The story put about by Anglo-American imperialism, and propagated far and wide by its media stooges, is that the Bush “surge” of 2007 worked, that the Iraqi resistance has been defeated, and that the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) are able … [Read more…]

This issue of LALKAR contained a picture of part of the platform of a well attended cultural function organised by the Indian Workers Association (Great Britain) members in Nottingham on Sunday, 22 August, at the ICCA in Hucknall Road. Following discussion of progressive writers in Britain, Harpal Brar made the main speech on the topic … [Read more…]

Jimmy Reid, who passed away at the Inverclyde Hospital in Greenock on the night of Tuesday, 10 August, aged 78, was a remarkable working-class leader with a variety of interests and talents.  He was a Clydesider, a shipbuilder, a trade unionist, a fiery speaker, a self-taught intellectual, a loving family man, a knowledgeable lover of … [Read more…]

Comrade Doyle, a long time supporter of Lalkar, passed away in May.  Lalkar sends its condolences to his family and wishes to thank them for the warmth and courtesy with which they adhered to their father’s wishes. His generous donation to our work and his touching words of enthusiasm for our contribution to the working-class … [Read more…]